About this course

Entry requirements

Full details can be found on the Queen's University website at http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/StudyatQueens/Coursefinder

MA, PG Dip

Months of entry

September

Course content

Programme Content

Consists of modules which reflect current critical thinking and key critical debates in English Literary Studies, plus a double-weighted dissertation module.

The following pathways (optional modules) are available:

Pathway in Medieval Studies
Anglo Saxon Voices
Cultures of Piety: English Religion, 1330-1550
John Gower and Late Medieval Traditions of Knowledge
Medieval Literatures and Cultures
Research Methods in Medieval Studies

Pathway in Modern Literary Studies
Charles Dickens in Context
Irish Romanticisms
James Joyce: Cultural Poetics and Literary Pragmatics
Literary Culture at the Fin du Siècle
Literature in Crisis: American Literature in the 21st Century
Milton Amongst the Moderns
The Novel and Modernity
Questioning the Orient in the Long Eighteenth Century
Slavery, Empire and Abolition, 1660-1840

Modules taught at University College Dublin
Shakespeare and World Cinema
Shakespearean Childhoods
State, Church and Subject: Reading Early Modern Religious and Political Writing
Women and Autobiography in Seventeenth Century England

Plus a dissertation of up to 15,000 words on an approved topic for the MA pathway.

Information for international students

Full details can be found on the Queen's University website at http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/StudyatQueens/Coursefinder